The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, will go to Algeria on February 16 to relaunch safety cooperation | EUROtoday

Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of the Interior, determined to answer the invitation from Saïd Sayoud, his Algerian counterpart. He will journey to Algeria on Monday and Tuesday, his entourage confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday February 12, whereas safety and migration cooperation is at its lowest between Paris and Algiers, in opposition to a backdrop of deep tensions between the 2 international locations. The Minister of the Interior spoke together with his counterpart on Thursday afternoon by phone to arrange for this go to, AFP realized from the identical supply.

Just a few days in the past, Laurent Nuñez assured that he had acquired an invite from his Algerian counterpart and that there “would respond”. “We are working under the conditions of this visit”he defined on BFM-TV, welcoming “what secure exchanges [aient] taken up between the two countries ». He will travel to Algeria to “talk about security issues, in particular the question of readmissions, the question of the fight against terrorism, against drug trafficking…”he then detailed.

At the start of February, the French minister mentioned he was ready for an preliminary response from Algiers to requests from Paris on the return to their nation of Algerian nationals in an irregular scenario in France and on the case of Christophe Gleizes, this sports activities journalist arrested in May 2024 whereas he was getting ready an article on the nation’s most profitable soccer membership, JS Kabylie.